Austin-Area Community
Blackhawk
A mature master-plan built around a links-style championship golf course, near the SH-130 and SH-45 tollways in Pflugerville.
- Where
- Pflugerville, Travis County, near the SH-130 / SH-45 interchange
- Golf
- Blackhawk Golf Club — 18-hole links-style, opened 1990
- Schools
- Pflugerville ISD
- Status
- Established and largely built out
Where it is
Blackhawk is in Pflugerville, in Travis County, near the SH-130 and SH-45 tollway interchange in the northeast part of the metro. That location is its practical strength: quick tollway access toward downtown Austin, the Domain and Tech Ridge, and the major employers along the corridor. It reads as a fit for commuters who want a settled neighborhood with fast highway connections.
Schools
Blackhawk is in Pflugerville ISD. The zoned elementary, middle, and high-school assignments vary by section of the community, so confirm the exact campuses for a specific address with the district's attendance-zone lookup.
Amenities and lifestyle
The community is built around the Blackhawk Golf Club, an 18-hole links-style championship course that opened in 1990 on a former dairy farm — an unusual origin and terrain for the area. Beyond golf there is a recreation center with pools and fitness, sport courts, playgrounds, and more than a hundred acres of parks and hike-and-bike trails along the Gilleland Creek greenbelt, with some sections adding their own extras.
Homes and pricing
Because Blackhawk is established, it offers a mix of home types — golf-course lots, larger custom and estate lots, fairway homes, and smaller garden homes — mostly as resale rather than new construction. Reported price ranges have generally run from the $400,000s into the $800,000s and up, with a median in the mid-hundreds; verify current figures, as they move with the market.
Taxes and the fine print
Combined property-tax rates here have been reported in the mid-2% range, typical for Pflugerville and Travis County. Whether a specific MUD or PID applies isn't something to assume for this older community — confirm the actual taxing entities and rate for a given lot with the Travis County tax assessor.
The honest take
Blackhawk is the counterpoint to the new northern ranches: a mature, largely built-out golf-course community with big trees, established neighbors, and tollway access closer to Austin's job centers. You trade the shiny new mega-amenities for location and maturity. If a settled neighborhood and a short tollway commute matter more than brand-new construction, Blackhawk makes a strong case.
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